Dear OGF Community - OGF is pleased to partner with the ASGC (Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre) to host OGF31 co-located with ISGC 2011 (International Symposium on Grids and Clouds) in Taipei, Taiwan from March 21-25, 2011. In addition to the ISGC call for papers, OGF is seeking active participation and proposals for sessions that will further explore and develop the state of the art in distributed computing. Topics of interest may include (but are not limited to): * Campus Grids and Clouds * Data Management in Grids and Clouds * Federated Disriibuted Computing Infrastructures * Identity Management and Virtual Organizations * Inter-cloud interoperability and SLA management * Interoperability of Grids and Clouds * Middleware and Interoperability * Networking for Distributed Computing Infrastructures * Performance measurement of Grids and Clouds * Performance of security implementations. * Science Clouds across North America, Europe, and Asia * Grid and Cloud Security * Distributed Desktop Grid and Volunteer Computing Chartered Group sessions, Area Meetings, and Birds of a Feather sessions also may be requested. Important Dates Deadline for ISGC paper submissions: Friday, January 7. Deadline for workshop, BoF and group session submissions: Friday, January 14. Acceptance notification: Thursday, January 20. ISGC Call for Papers: http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2011/cfp.html OGF31 Call for Session Proposals: http://www.ogf.org/OGF31/cfp.php Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF31 * March 21-25 * Taipei, Taiwan * www.ogf.org/OGF31